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The Daily Show host Jon Stewart will appear on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor on Monday to debate about rapper Common’s invitation to perform at a White House event. O’Reilly issued the challenge Thursday on his show. The two hosts have differing opinions on the rapper, who performed at a poetry event this week at the White House. Reilly questioned Common’s invitation, saying the rapper has defended cop killers in his songs. Stewart countered, more against O’Reilly’s views than about Common, triggering O’Reilly’s challenge.
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Who is Common? Do people really care?
“Who is Common? Do people really care?”
Right wingers care enough about him to create a fake controversy. It’s almost like they’re getting their asses handed to them by Obama and have had to resort to ginning up fake outrage to distract people. But that couldn’t be the case, not with a serious news organization like Fox.
Can’t wait to watch Stewart tear this clown a new one.
I wonder if Jon will bring along that clip of Ted Nugent threatening physical violence against Obama and Hilary Clinton, whereupon Sean Hannity said “Oh, he’s just expressing an opinion”
However I must say, kudos to Fox for another successfully manufactured controversy! Who says we don’t make things in the USA any more?
haha, on point.
media is poor in usa. Insignificant people getting airtime. Use that creativity to build a better country. Or some good public messages instead of a pissing competition. Thanks you for the applause.
It’s sweeps, they both love stunts to get publicity for their shows. Yawn.
Stewart and O’Reilly have appeared on each other’s shows many times, and O’Reilly knew in advance that Stewart would come on.This will actually be very civilised… and kind of boring.
Now, if BECK ever had the guts to accept the many invitations he’s had to go on TDS…
Not to take either side, but the fact is that Common wrote/performed “A Song For Assata” which lavishly praises a member of the Black Liberation Army named Joanne Chesimard a domestic terrorist who was convicted in 1977 of the first degree murder of a New Jersey state trooper and sentenced to life in prison. She has since escaped prison and is in Cuba under their asylum laws. To add insult to injury, it’s National Police Week. A time when traditionally police take time to honor their fallen brethren. Jon Stewart left all of this out of his segment, and I’m sure Mr. O’Reilly will just have him acknowledge this and move on. Respect for the one’s that protect us should be paramount, and I don’t think that’s “manufactured” in any way whatsoever.
Didn’t Common once famously sing, “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die?” Oh wait, never mind. Seriously, the only controversial thing Common has ever done was an advertisement for the Gap.
Fox pulls out the Brietbart playbook again! The zombies only hear the first part of the song, which talks about the hateful violence towards people but the end of the song says lets not take the path and instead work together to create a better world for ourselves. It’s a song against violence not for it but leave it to Fox to come up with its mirror universe analysis.
I love watching Jon spin O’Reilly the other way. It’s like watching a hummingbird steal nectar from a bear.
Um, I just read the lyrics myself to get some perspective and Common is totally in the corner for Joanne Chesimard.
I also think you are distorting the end of this song to soften the very confrontational tone of the rest of it.
“Police questioned but shot before she answered
One panther lost his life, the other ran for his
Scandalous the police were as they kicked and beat her.”
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/common/#share
“Handcuffed tight to the bed, through her skin it bit
Put guns to her head, every word she got hit
‘who shot the trooper? ‘ they asked her
Put mace in her eyes, threatened to blast her.”
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/common/#share
“One of the brothers she had a child with
The foulness they would feed her, hopin’ she’s lose her seed
Held tight, knowing the fight would live through this seed
In need of a doctor, from her stomach she’s bleed
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/common/#share
At the end of it Common doesn’t say to “not take the path of violence and work together”, rather it is this…”Freedom! you askin’ me about freedom. askin’ me about freedom?
I’ll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn’t
Than about what it is, cause I’ve never been free.
I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
Uhh, the way I see it, freedom is– is the right to grow, is the right to Blossom.
Freedom is -is the right to be yourself, to be who you are,
To be who you wanna be, to do what you wanna do.”
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/common/#share
I don’t see anything in there about working together or non-violence, do you? It might be nice for you to hope that he has that belief NOW, but it certainly wasn’t in his mind when he wrote this song praising someone who directly contributed to the murder of a Police Officer.
Stewart will wipe the floor with him! Palin and FOX only say what they think their audience wants to hear as far as Neocon propaganda. This imprudent commentary has caused damage to the world view of America including critical comments such as this which expose not only racism and bigotry but the obtuse world-view of the people this kind of rhetoric seems fit to represent. I was compelled to create a visual commentary about this very thing on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/01/sarah-palin-made-me-do-it.html
Beck is no match for Jon Steward. I do believe is is barely a one person show. Comfortable with his own self…. Like a Blond (no offense to blonds) Rush Limbaugh!
I’m sure Stewart’s writters will supply him with some big words to use to make him sound smart, people like Stewart and Maher couldn’t ad-lib a burp at Burger King.